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Gerhard Bohrmann

Gerhard Bohrmann

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Earth Science

D-Index
70
Citations
15508
World Ranking
1000
National Ranking
63

Overview

Gerhard Bohrmann is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in Engineering, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work intersects several subfields, notably Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Drilling and Well Engineering, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Bohrmann has authored recent papers including:

  • Iron and sulfate reduction structure microbial communities in (sub-)Antarctic sediments (2021) published in The ISME Journal
  • The ikaite to calcite transformation: Implications for palaeoclimate studies (2022) published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Increased petrogenic and biospheric organic carbon burial in sub-Antarctic fjord sediments in response to recent glacier retreat (2021) published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • Trace element distribution in methane-seep carbonates: The role of mineralogy and dissolved sulfide (2021) published in Chemical Geology
  • Methane Seeps and Independent Methane Plumes in the South China Sea Offshore Taiwan (2020) published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Their frequent co-authors include Michael Riedel, Marta E. Torres, Char-Shine Liu, A. M. Tréhu, and Frank R. Rack.

Bohrmann's research has appeared across multiple publication venues with notable frequency in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Marine and Petroleum Geology, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), and Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.

Best Publications

  • Contribution of Southern Ocean surface-water stratification to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the last glacial period

    Roger Franois;Mark A. Altabet;Ein-Fen Yu;Daniel M. Sigman

  • Authigenic carbonates from the Cascadia subduction zone and their relation to gas hydrate stability

    Gerhard Bohrmann;Jens Greinert;Erwin Suess;Marta Torres

  • Gas hydrate destabilization: enhanced dewatering, benthic material turnover and large methane plumes at the Cascadia convergent margin

    Erwin Suess;M. Torres;Gerhard Bohrmann;R. W. Collier

  • Barite fronts in continental margin sediments: a new look at barium remobilization in the zone of sulfate reduction and formation of heavy barites in diagenetic fronts

    M.E. Torres;H.J. Brumsack;G. Bohrmann;K.C. Emeis

  • Three-dimensional distribution of gas hydrate beneath southern Hydrate Ridge: Constraints from ODP Leg 204

    Anne M Tréhu;Philip E Long;Marta E Torres;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Gas Hydrate‐Associated Carbonates and Methane‐Venting at Hydrate Ridge: Classification, Distribution, and Origin of Authigenic Lithologies

    Jens Greinert;Gerhard Bohrmann;Erwin Suess

  • Gas hydrate growth, methane transport, and chloride enrichment at the southern summit of Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia margin off Oregon

    Marta E Torres;Klaus Wallmann;Anne M Tréhu;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Jiulong methane reef : Microbial mediation of seep carbonates in the South China Sea

    Xiqiu Han;Xiqiu Han;Erwin Suess;Yong-Jiang Huang;Nengyou Wu

  • Sea Floor Methane Hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin

    E. Suess;M.E. Torres;G. Bohrmann;R.W. Collier

  • Massive barite deposits and carbonate mineralization in the Derugin Basin, Sea of Okhotsk: precipitation processes at cold seep sites

    Jens Greinert;Sandra M. Bollwerk;Alexander Derkachev;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • U/Th systematics and ages of authigenic carbonates from Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin: recorders of fluid flow variations

    Barbara M. A. Teichert;Anton Eisenhauer;Gerhard Bohrmann;Alexandra Haase-Schramm

  • Chemoherms on Hydrate Ridge — Unique microbially-mediated carbonate build-ups growing into the water column

    Barbara M.A. Teichert;Gerhard Bohrmann;Erwin Suess

  • Fluid venting in the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone

    Erwin Suess;Gerhard Bohrmann;Roland von Huene;Peter Linke

  • Similar glacial and interglacial export bioproductivity in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean: Multiproxy evidence and implications for glacial atmospheric CO2

    Martin Frank;Rainer Gersonde;Michiel Rutgers van der Loeff;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Quantifying fluid flow, solute mixing and biogeochemical turnover at cold vents of the eastern Aleutian subduction zone

    Klaus Wallmann;Peter Linke;Erwin Suess;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Mud volcanoes and gas hydrates in the Black Sea: new data from Dvurechenskii and Odessa mud volcanoes

    G. Bohrmann;M. Ivanov;J.-P. Foucher;V. Spiess

  • Asphalt volcanism and chemosynthetic life in the Campeche Knolls, Gulf of Mexico.

    I. R. MacDonald;G. Bohrmann;E. Escobar;F. Abegg

  • Formation of modern and Paleozoic stratiform barite at cold methane seeps on continental margins

    Marta E. Torres;Gerhard Bohrmann;Thomas E. Dubé;Forrest G. Poole

  • Barium accumulation in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: Results From 190,000-year records

    Christine C. Nürnberg;Gerhard Bohrmann;Michael Schlüter;Martin Frank

  • Temporal and spatial evolution of a gas hydrate–bearing accretionary ridge on the Oregon continental margin

    Anne M. Tréhu;Marta E. Torres;Gregory F. Moore;Erwin Suess

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Heiko Sahling
Heiko Sahling University of Bremen
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Marta E Torres
Marta E Torres Oregon State University
Jörn Peckmann
Jörn Peckmann Universität Hamburg
Klaus Wallmann
Klaus Wallmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Michael Ivanov
Michael Ivanov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Ingo Klaucke
Ingo Klaucke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Achim J Kopf
Achim J Kopf University of Bremen

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